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back russian humanitarian trucks returned home after bringing much needed supplies to eastern ukraine. at the convoy on a dangerous aid mission which was dubbed an invasion by kiev. you can see this black smoke over there shelling never stops in the city. the jury did over whether murder charges should be pressed against the police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager while demonstrators in ferguson missouri two weeks since martin. plus. a lot of work to the human just. hundreds of e.u. citizens are volunteering to join the ranks of militants fighting in syria and iraq
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we report on the growing number of jihadist sympathizers in your. there is good to have you company you're watching international now russian humanitarian trucks have come back from their mission in eastern ukraine they brought tons of vital supplies to the people in war torn the ganske. follow the column on their dangerous trip. it finally happens after being stuck at the border for ten days russian trucks with relief aid for eastern ukraine start their lifesaving journey we took off from russia's border city of donetsk it's right here just sixty kilometers from the guns go final destination but the main road is very dangerous the rock fierce clashes there right now and this is why we take and then
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turn to for a little bit to the know and this is why i will have to drive at least one hundred kilometers and still it's not completely safe the road twists through picturesque pastures the inch of the coast snaking through the horizon looks so peaceful but in this zone of a large scale military operation there are checkpoints at every crossroad com demand and they truly caus hide in the forest or know them and their anti government forces their control in this part of ukraine and they have provided security for the humanitarian convoy. that is now heading towards the guns could lead to a sunless top and reconnaissance groups and before us reports danger had but media got all the babies were not there not at all some ideas up off my book about every jewish if. not all hers you know the war in lebanon when the. two
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hours later we continue but to change the show again for security reasons the road we had to take is a wild path this is why we are now moving very very slowly in the villages we pass through some of the few residents left to the site of the cars. we are entering the gonski now after more than four. hours driving you can see this black smoke over there shelling never stops in the city for security reasons again the convoy divides and the trucks and to different roads. we follow one of the groups the relief caravan is welcomed by locals who have become so hungry and desperate during the days of hardship like that of other point that i was sure you have. no money to walk home but he carries an ominous sign of need to work to make one additional panetta war time i don't know which can be a government where you have to do all you do you carry people in for put on
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a minute and tell you look tell you if you will. keep a watch out for new york or you have to get it you know it's good awkward kid care yeah we do my kids got a point to cut that boy finally the convoy arrives at one of the city's warehouses willing to use it here to help with unloading. the aid will first go to socially vulnerable groups and those who have been affected the most by the ongoing crisis in lugansk but also in neighboring towns and villages along the way to here many tearing aid from russia has finally now here in their god save tons of food to take medicine and other goods that are sorely needed taking the city that has been living under a very intense shelling for many months and recently without electricity or word to people of this war torn region have been waiting for this convoy for many days within the next hours they will start receiving the first help. review notion out
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t. lugansk ukraine well the city of against is surrounded and constantly under attack by kiev's forces activists say that hundreds of civilians have died just a warning graphic images are ahead residents say gruesome scenes like this of becoming a part of everyday life five hundred thousand people used to live in the ganske but more than half of them have fled according to local authorities numerous residential buildings and houses have been destroyed and hardly any place in the city is safe. well the u.s. says the humanitarian convoys journey is a flagrant violation of ukraine's sovereignty and threatened consequences for russia the white house security official claims russia sent repainted military trucks into ukraine but didn't give any proof they also said most of the vehicles were inspected properly even though foreign journalists and the red cross were
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allowed to check at the cargo what this statement doesn't mention is the humanitarian disaster in the ganske people there have been without basic supplies for nearly three weeks now. let's fix. this little. sluggish economy. if i. want to get. to work this year because you would. only. watch to someone. and the number of ukrainians fleeing violence in the east of the nation is constantly increasing more than one thousand people leave the combat zone every day the u.n. says according to the organizations refugee agency over seven hundred thousand people fled from ukraine to russia this year alone the conflict has also left more than one hundred ten thousand people internally displaced and the u.n.
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chief of humanitarian affairs says it's crucial not to politicize the die situation many civilians in the east of ukraine are really. i think that there are political issues which need to be addressed between ukraine and the russian federation what i think is important in terms of the humanitarian aspects of. those aspects are not politicized one of the important things about humanitarian work is that it's independent it's neutral it's about bringing aid to people desperate me i regret that this whole issue of the convoy became highly politicized and i hope that that does not happen again. meanwhile the german chancellor angela merkel has offered ukraine five hundred million euros to rebuild eastern ukraine donbass region the money will be allocated to
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a special fund set to be created in september the german leader discussed the situation in eastern ukraine with the nation's president during her working visit to kiev artie's poor leslie has more on what was said. many good words have been said and often these are the would say people here inhofe ruined it didn't it square i am want to hear but experience has shown him to be a little bit suspicious of what leaders are saying on the one hand the german chancellor angela merkel say that she does support a cease fire she also said that the interests of russian speaking citizens in ukraine needs to be addressed she also said she supports the idea of a decentralization of power the ukrainian president petro poroshenko said that he was setting up a fund to the tune of some five hundred million euros that was being provided for by germany now he has been asking for money to help rebuild donbass will essentially the ukrainian army has been active both leaders did say that they
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understood that a purely military solution was impossible merkel did however slip some one sided remarks she expressed unquestioning support for the kid got the men she also said that they couldn't be a peace process for as long as weapons were coming across the border from russia into ukraine now this is a claim that has been made by several western leaders but none of them have been able to back up these claims with any kind of proof or evidence that the german chancellor also saying that all previous ceasefires had been unilateral and broken by antigovernment fighters now this is not something that people on the ground have been telling us so many people here in the new guns going to next region say that all previous truce has happened while simultaneously you had the ukrainian military continuing with its shelling and its operations. to leave him a former state secretary to the german minister of defense says angela merkel is cause for a ceasefire gives him hope the chancellor is seeing her citizens position on ukrainian conflict. people here in germany are fed up with nato allies and they
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are fed up with was organized by the united states here and there and everywhere in their fire saying it is totally unnecessary to provide president poroshenko with the window of lety we are not interested in having the ongoing conflict in the eastern part of the ukraine if you should do the utmost to find a peaceful solution and therefore i think most people here include towards the lower marks of anglo-american that weapons should be silent in zero in on our web site r.t. dot com we are following the fate of russian photographer under a standing he dissipate in ukraine eighteen days ago these were media outlets like a pay and royalties in various hotspots around the world calls for his release a globally supported by a free andrey campaign on social networks. now
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a grand jury is considering whether charges should be pressed against the us police officers suspected of killing an unarmed black teen meanwhile demonstrators in ferguson missouri two weeks since michael brown's death supporters of the police said in a separate rather unique bison that the shooting was justified. as. the anger and frustration over the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager michael brown has not gone away this community is still demanding justice and accountability for brown's death darren wilson the white police officer who shot brown six times remains on paid leave now meanwhile the st louis grand jury has begun weighing avenues to determining it. should be charged with killing the eighteen year old the decision is expected in october but the makeup of the jury may ignite
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a new wave of backlash nine white people and only three black people were chosen as jurors the un even representation may ignite a new feeling of injustice causing the public to accuse the process of being biased now on issues of transparency surrounding the shooting the ferguson police has disclosed as little information as possible the official police incident report obtained by the a.c.l.u. is only two pages long and does not include a description of the shooting the shooting scenes or quotes from eyewitnesses names of the officers involved or any other piece of information normally found on such documents a spokesperson for the county police says the incident report includes the information they are required to share by law michael brown's funeral is scheduled to take place on monday but over the weekend many events vigils and demonstrations are planned to take place with tempers still high it's not clear how quiet or violent
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things may get marina portnoy r.t. ferguson well thousands in new york protests. against police brutality the demonstrators called for justice from this matic man who died when officers wrestled him to the ground and held him in a stranglehold the protesters also express their solidarity with activists in ferguson the rallies there are being met by offices in combat gear and armored vehicles tear gas rubber bullets and even wooden pallets have been fired on the angry crowd meanwhile u.s. president barack obama ordered a review of military equipment used by local police and he war activist in iraq veteran michael prysner believes the police exercise shoot to kill policy because they think they can get away with it. the reason that they can do this is because they know there's absolutely zero accountability police have a free pass to do whatever they want and you know that they're going to get away with it and know that they're never going to be held accountable and the facts and
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racism and white supremacy of course plays so much into that because that's why these white officers can kill black people on a massive massive scale and are never punished for it and as soon as the incident happens the entire system rallies around the defense of the police officer and demonizes the victim that's what we saw with the michael brown and the reason that there is such militarization of the police and such heavy handed tactics that we've seen used in ferguson the whole reason the national guard has drawn out is because those protests were an expression of real deep issues in american society it seems very scary to people to see all of the equipment that the police had but the fact that they need that equipment shows that they're scared. and he has one more reason why the police the public is outraged with police conduct an officer. has been suspended for insulting protesters on facebook saying that and i quote they should have been put down like a rabid dog another policeman was also relieved of his duties for
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a video in which he makes racist remarks when these stories go to our website at r.t. dot com. we have got more coming your way including how more and more french citizens are joining the ranks of jihadists in iraq that's coming. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis is syria we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition we will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. and west introduced sanctions against russia and obviously russia retaliated and.
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confrontational rather it goes on and on what do you think about sanctions is another way of solving economy and business hostage to politics is russia did invade east ukraine i mean i don't think. the west or russia would try to get a lucrative street twenty or thirty years you know this is no easy rifle wrong but it. is better than complex. and welcome back now at least thirty five people have been killed in a string of bombings across iraq a day after a deadly attack on a sunni mosque scores died when three explosions rocked the center of cook located in oil rich northern iraq targeted security forces while the third went off at
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a market entrance earlier another attack was carried out in baghdad a suicide bomber drove his car into an entrance to intelligence offices killing eleven yourselves comes the government launched a probe into friday's massacre when gunmen shot dead at least sixty eight worshippers is a sunni. mosque it is still unclear whether the attackers were shia militia men or fighting or fighters from the islamic state. formally known as isis the jihadist group please sweep in the north of the raft in syria kurdish fighters are trying to hold back the onslaught of the jihadists in iraq backed by u.s. aircraft which are carrying out strikes on militant positions washington is considering expanding the strikes to syria as well meanwhile france's foreign minister has called for the flow of the militant groups financial supplies to be stemmed is a pale comes at a time when support for jihadists inside france is growing party boy has this
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report. according to a new poll fifteen percent of french people say they think positively of the a ceramic state the eighteen to twenty four year olds that figure is even higher while their government sends weapons to help the fight against the had a stick stream is an iraq and is rallying world powers to help stamp out caliphate ideology it's estimated that around seven hundred french nationals have come to become had to tourists in iraq and syria and that's raising concerns over what's in store when they come home who could show you in september eleventh for you to throw more looked a few good books they concluded the troubles that you had only nineteen killed three thousand people in the region that know you have at keast off for. people coming from western europe in train in syria. all of these people alone. could be in deep trouble in may
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a french algerian jihadist armed with a kalashnikov shot dead four people in brussels jewish museum he'd recently returned from fighting alongside jihadists in syria these are generally young fighters there young people there radicalize the. two ways simultaneously either they meet somebody through an internet shop forum or on the internet who is a radical first or they meet them in person first as a result of travel to some of these countries but there's also a third way and that's through france's prison system muslims are thought to account for the whole of the country's prison population many inmates come from communities blighted by poverty and unemployment and they can be easy prey for jihadists recruited which means that an increasing number of young men coming in here as petty criminals drug dealers and faves but that coming out as islamic
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fundamentalists around a fifth of the french jehad us fighting in syria and iraq or islamic converts. and then just. see it in the horses in paris people struggling to get their heads around the phenomenon thinking we do have a problem with extremism but it's a broader problem about france and integration and it's it's. it's not just a problem of. a religious problem it's also. so what is france and i think we're well she was struggling to find all our identity we are friction. of this tool do going there are three to five it's more like you like crusade to cruise something very like a moral kind of but to be have to show this is worrying owen asleep some analysts
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now say that the french government has to tread carefully over the situation in iraq to avoid angering radicalized muslims at home i think that they could become very angry and i think that the government is very careful if they do something besides sending food or water or some guy. they would cover much we will probably hear the french government's already forces law make militants in mali and now their affairs that the rise of the islam mixtape in iraq could be inspiring and new generation of would be jihadists in this european country but the largest muslim population probably coati paris and the jihadist militants apparently have a fair number of sympathizers across the english channel as well according to reports around five hundred u.k. citizens and i fighting alongside the islamic state group in syria and iraq while some say the number is three fold higher will journalist jonathan steele who has
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written extensively on the middle east says that the british government is hesitant to take action against them one of the crucial theories is that the british government turned the people who go out to fight it in syria or in one sense on the same side because there is close to the inner circle the government of the new form search it recently appointed mr hammond said that there was no way that britain would tolerate it would work with. the british government is on the same circuit as the people who go out to fight in syria against herself obviously you know the british government is not supporting beheading of people you know some of the atrocities that didn't commit it but they are in the broader political sense on the same side and that's also one reason that hesitant to prosecute these people or to . you know position to assume that it's automatic it. seems that the the plans of the islamic militants extend far beyond the front seas
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of the middle east in the medium police have been put on of the world's largest buddhist temple after a threat made by isis supporters we've got all the details for you at our web. plus thirty four sailors have been dismissed after a seven year long fraud scandal at the u.s. navy's nuclear power training site you can find out why at r.t. dot com. the protesters have formed a human chain across the german polish border they are calling for plans to create a new open pit coal mine in the region to be scrapped not only will the mine require destroying numerous villages on both sides of the border but activists warn it could lead to an ecological disaster one of the organizers of the protest shared his concern. this is a form off electricity generation which is very environmentally damaging it's the
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burning off coal is still sterilizing the climate which is causing a lot of human suffering burning of coal it's also you know which mercury in particles and most importantly mining is destroying entire villages forests and a lot of flow and in germany we are moving towards a little tricity system based on clean renewable energies and this is entirely possible entire regions are already using one hundred percent renewable energies a quick look at some other world news now after ten days of clashes is the miss claim to have taken total control of tripoli international airport in libya during the raid at least ten people have been killed and dozens wounded the airport has been shut down for more than a month from a clashes between israelis and the government funded and militia. a new series of israeli air strikes has brought the death toll of palestinians killed since the beginning of israel's assault on the gaza strip to over two
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thousand one hundred at least twenty two people including eleven children were wounded after israeli aircraft missiles as a twelve story apartment sour is followed several air. strikes on gaza which killed at least eight people and injured more than thirty one of the missiles hit a house before dawn claiming the lives of five members of the same family. sierra leone which has been hit by the ebola epidemic has passed the law imposing prudent prison terms of up to two years for those who try to hide people infected with the virus the current outbreak has forced the nation to take serious measures in order to get residents to cooperate fully with government officials as they combat it spread the new law is now waiting for presidential approval almost fifteen hundred deaths have already been recorded in the outbreak which has hit several west african nations. and the aviation industry has been put on red alert over an
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icelandic volcano part of the country's airspace has been closed as the volcano is expected to spew large amounts of ash at the nation's airports are currently operating is normal though back in twenty ten the eruption of another volcano in iceland did cause huge disruptions to european flights. now after the break we take a closer look at the child vaccine debate in the u.s. and for you. with georgetown. trust me i like video games you could tell from my physique but feel like all media can distort reality in the minds of kids and once was journalist it's very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist karl magnus held in sun seemed almost addicted to the legendary military first person shooter game call of duty so
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something like killing people i live with guns he decided to take them to the gaza strip to show them what war is all about this rebel group brought his boys to a refugee camp where they could see injured kids just like them so. getting their wounds to stop they got to see all the blood and tears apparently this in your face method of parenting works and his children have stopped their on line war this strategy might sound a little extreme and all very expensive i can't afford to fly my family to israel to prove a point but sometimes we're all the to be smacked in the face with reality as a man there's something attractive about roman conquests our ranks of musket fire and a pulley on a conflict those images are nice but the reality is blood and death and if more kids could have the same experience as a healthier and family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion. these are just soldiers this that's not
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a soldier's russia's internal special forces but being tough and good with a gun may not be enough of these extreme tests. only the most capable will be to the end. of. those whose dreams can melt away exhaustion ranks put themselves through fire smoke and water but not for money promotion. is the coveted crimson bearer. it's like you don't want the bullets to stop because it's like doc got stuck in a backpack the cock up moment so it's it's almost like there's a big the little and then you just feel all the big sound it's like a face. thanks thanks. i love trudie
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